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Plant and earth up celery and endive. Plant stawberries. 

 A few coleworts may still be put in. 



Fruit Garden. Proceed in the training and regulation 

 of summer shoots of all fruit-trees, as directed for the last 

 three months. Attend to the thinning of the fruit where 

 necessary. Mat up, in dry weather, gooseberry and cur- 

 rant-bushes, to preserve the fruit till late in the autumn. 

 Every exertion must now be used by the gardeners to pre- 

 serve the ripening fruit on the walls from insects, and de- 

 stroy wasp nests. 



Forcing. The same routine of cultivation in hotbeds 

 and pits may be proceeded in as stated for last month. 

 Sow, and propagate by cuttings, in the beginning of the 

 month, cucumbers, to be afterwards grown in hot-water 

 pits, or in boxes in the front of the pine- stove, for a winter 

 crop. In the pinery, most of the fruit will be cut by the 

 middle of the month, when a general shifting of succession- 

 plants should take place ; as also a potting of suckers ; 

 but these will be strengthened by being allowed to remain 

 on the old plant untill the end of this month. In the forcing- 

 houses where the crops are past, part of the sashes may be 

 removed so as to permit thorough ventilation. 



Green-house. Attend to the propagation of all sorts of 

 green-house plants by cuttings, and to the replacing in the 

 green-house and stoves the more tender species, by the end 

 of the month in ordinary seasons, but in wet weather in 

 the second week. Sow half-hardy annuals, as Clarkia, 

 Schizanthus, Coreopsis, &c., to flower during winter. Also 

 begin to propagate the various species of the half-hardy 

 green-house plants, noticed under February, for decorating 

 the flower garden in the following summer. 



Flower Garden and Shrubbery. Sow in the second and 

 the last week, on a warm border of a light, sandy soil, with 



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